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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

In 2013, Chad and I founded Build Abroad, a nonprofit organization that builds homes in developing countries. We have sent hundreds of volunteers to help communities in need, all the way from Haiti to Nepal. Is this the first company you guys founded? I guess it’s only fitting that Digs deals housing too.

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Crowdfunding a Community in Haiti After Hurricane Matthew: Checking in With New Story’s CEO

Hunter Walker

Right now, we are crowdfunding a community in the area of Haiti hit worst by Hurricane Matthew. All of our 211 homes built in Haiti withstood Hurricane Matthew. The funding will be primarily used to grow our team with top talent (developers, marketers, ops, growth, video, head of content). Help Haiti After Hurricane Matthew.

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Andrew McCubbins: An Entrepreneur Solving World Problems From Salt Lake City, Utah

YoungUpstarts

Philanthropist Andrew McCubbins has developed his skills and has been directly involved in rescue missions in Haiti and Mexico. For example, he started an initiative to help rescue children from different parts of the world who were victims of child trafficking. The organization he started, O.U.R

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I also developed tranwise.com a project management system especially for the translation project management, setup a telephone interpreting system and expanded the business with offices in Europe and the US. Bringing light into their homes would allow them to lift themselves out of poverty thru education and developing small businesses.

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Five Drivers of Real Opportunity for Startups

Startup Professionals Musings

In my opinion, real pain points for most people do not require a new user interface for Facebook, a new programming platform for app development, or even the Apple iPad. Entrepreneurs who search for real pain points, and build solutions around them, have the best chance of changing the world. Some kind of natural or man-made disaster.

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For Example! My EG Conference Experience

The Startup Magazine

She reflected on a series of evocative photographs illustrating the crisis in Haiti and its aftermath, the plight of the Kosovo refugees, and other humanitarian disasters. A diver and natural history producer, Rachel Butler took the audience through her attempts to develop extraordinary underwater stories for Blue Planet II.

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Supporting Cliff Avril and New Story

VC Adventure

Earlier this month Seattle Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril announced that he would support building homes in Haiti – devastated most recently by hurricane Matthew. For every sack Avril gets this season he’s donating $6,000 which is enough to build a home that is both hurricane and earthquake proof.

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